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What is this cable for?

Shwhyle
By Shwhyle
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First time building. Just finished, it posts fine, all is well, and then I notice a cable that came with my motherboard still in the box. I have no clue what it's for. Anyone have any clue?

 

Also, the SATA cables that came with the PSU are confusing me - there's 2 SATA power cables coming out of the PSU, but both of them have multiple SATA power connectors. I put the end of each cable into each of my drives, but it looks like I can just use 1 cable to connect both of the drives to the PSU. Would doing so give one drive more power than the other or something?

 

Thanks in advance, I'm a complete novice.

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cant get a good look on the 2 splitting part..have u.check.the manual? everything u want.to.know.is there..god i hate this keyboard

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It converts two 6 pin GPU powers to a single 8 pin GPU power.

 

Not at all, connecting the SATA to your PSU will provide the line with equal power to each connector.

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The SATA power cables can be use with more than one device per cable. That is why there is more on connectors on it.

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1 minute ago, UrbanFreestyle said:

That very much looks like a dual 6 pin to single 8 pin adapter to power your graphics card.

Thats exactly what it is.

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